Doctor's degree Architecture Organizational & Cognitive Performance - Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus

Doctor's degree Architecture Organizational & Cognitive Performance from Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus is a Campus Ph.D Architecture And Related Services degree that prepares you for a Architecture career. Overview Buildings and cities are designed to organize and make intelligible patterns of life, understanding and feeling. This is their generic function, over and above the accommodation of the particular program that initiates their design. Good design is distinguished by the precision of intention and insight which it expresses relative to such generic functions. But as a profession we have few tools by which to measure good design. When it comes to the fundamental connection between the design of physical form and its intended outcomes or consequences, architectural practice often relies on folk theories. In studying the organizational and cognitive performance of buildings and cities, our first step is the development of rigorous comparative descriptions of built form that are adequate to the development of theories of function, perception or cognition, with the description of formal and spatial patterns, whether embedded in buildings and cities or arising from their use, is the distinctive domain knowledge that we bring to interdisciplinary inquiries. If, as architects, we are uniquely able to intuit the significant properties of form, then as architectural researchers we are uniquely qualified to develop rigorous descriptions of them and to embed these descriptions in computational models of form and function. Recent research contributions to better understanding how office design supports knowledge work, how museums support informal learning, how street layouts support vibrant urban cultures, development and changing patterns of land use over time, or how hospital design supports effective medical processes have all grown on this foundation. Another line of inquiry has explored how architectural works are able to engage the imagination and develop specific conceptual content through organization of space and visual form. This same foundation naturally supports contributions to design practice, whether through the formulation of a design concept, or through the evaluation of design alternatives. We seek to attract students and colleagues who wish to study in depth the intrinsic logic and implications of design languages, the functions associated with particular building types, the way in which cultural codes and social norms are embedded in built form, the manner in which architecture is experienced, or the underlying principles that govern the way in which buildings are designed, used and understood. Familiarity with digital tools is particularly welcomed and willingness to engage and extend computationally supported descriptions is essential. Our graduates have embarked on successful academic careers or have engaged innovative practice. View more details on Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Architecture And Related Services courses.